Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Research Tips

AND...

When using Academic Search Premier and Historical Abstracts, be sure to use "And" between the terms. (E.g. Black death AND Italy)

Quotation Marks...

When using JSTOR an AND is automatically inserted between every word. To keep words together as a phrase, use quotation marks. (E.g. "Black death" Italy)

Asterick*

An asterick at the end of a word can find alternate endings. (E.g. Jew* will find Jew, Jews, Jewish, etc)